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Also Known As Josiah Willard Gibbs
Born February 11, 1839 • New Haven • Connecticut
Died April 28, 1903 (aged 64) • New Haven • Connecticut
Awards And Honors Hall of Fame (1950) • Copley Medal (1901)
Subjects Of Study Gibbs-Duhem equation • Gibbs-Helmholtz equation • Gibbs free energy • phase rule

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